• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Yes but neither Iraq or Afghanistan were responsible for those attacks so NATO has never been mobilized. The US invasion of Iraq, as you already stated before, was not agreed upon by several NATO members including France.

    NATO Mission Iraq (NMI) is currently lead by France.

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        3 hours ago

        So you’re saying NATO was mobilized without Article 5 even though NATO members voluntarily enterred Afghanistan? You seem to not understand what NATO is, it is a mutual defense pact that forces its members to participate in a war when one member is attacked, and that has never happened.

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          3 hours ago

          without Article 5

          I already linked with sources that Article 5 was invoked and Afghanistan was a NATO mission, not the US and some allies.

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            2 hours ago

            Article 5 was not invoked on Afghanistan, Article 5 was invoked over a year possibly 2 years prior after 9/11 which was not perpetrated by Afghanistan.

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              1 hour ago

              Article 5 was invoked over a year possibly 2 years prior after 9/11

              “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) declared an Article 5 contingency through a series of resolutions of the North Atlantic Council enacted between September 12 and October 2, 2001, done in response to the September 11 attacks in the United States.”

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_5_contingency_(2001)

              Nato went into Afghanistan in 2001.

              https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_8189.htm

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                1 hour ago

                The USA went into Afghanistan in 2001, NATO operations officially started in 2003, as per the articles you just linked.

                NATO Allies went into Afghanistan in 2001. From August 2003, NATO led the UN-mandated International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which aimed to create the conditions whereby the Afghan government could exercise its authority throughout the country and build the capacity of the Afghan national security forces, including in the fight against international terrorism. ISAF was completed in December 2014 when the Afghan National Defence and Security Forces assumed full responsibility for security across their country.